Myrl has been a writer since she was a teenager. Her fourth book, and first novel, She Who Burns, will be released in August, 2023.

Myrl's first book, The House With the Broken Two: A Birthmother Remembers (Anvil Press, 2011), won the 2010 First Book Competition sponsored by The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University and the 2011 Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta Award.

Her second book, A Year of Days (U of Alberta Press 2015) won an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) bronze medal for 2016 and was a Foreword Review 2016 INDIEFAB finalist in the Essays category.

Myrl's third book, The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories, is a collection of connected short (and short-ish) fiction about absence, family secrets, and ghosts.

Myrl holds a PhD in English from the University of Alberta, where she taught English and writing for eight years. She is also the author of a bimonthly newsletter, Me Who Writes, available for free at myrlcoulter.substack.com.

Myrl lives in Kelowna, BC. For more information, visit her website at www.myrlcoulter.com